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1,199,523. 4 I PatentedSept. 26,1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET VZtfimess s Inventor W Harry J Basworlih UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY J. BOSWORTH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WORK-BENCH.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY J. BOSWORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Work-Benches, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and .eXact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to work benches such as are employed by dentists, jewelers, etc., and has to do with a peculiar construction and arrangement of parts to the end of securing a structure of universal adaptability.

Th difiiculty heretofore has been that in laboratories and small workshops, it has been necessary to build in special structures in order to use the allowed space most ad vantageously and in order to secure a thorou'ghly useful device.

It is the object of my invention to provide what may be termed a sectional arrangement in the sense that various units are provided either of uniform or various construction.

The particular feature of which I make point is the provision of an arrangement wherein any final available space may be devoted to the formation of a cabinet which requires only the addition of a door to complete it. Thus, a door of any size may be used so as to fill the complete space allowed and a compartment, always useful in a work bench of this character, is thus additionally provided. In this way the exterior of the bench has a finished appearance, whatever its length or make-up may be, and the bench does not have the appearance of a factory-made article which is disposed to fit the room, either well or poorly, depending upon the size of the room or the amount of wall space. On the other hand, all the advantages of a factory-made article are preserved and a useful structure, which is of good appearance, which economizes space, and which effectively utilizes space which would otherwise be lost, is the result.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the work bench without the additional compartment or cabinet. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken on the plane of the line 2, 2, of Fig. 1 and looking in the direction indicated by the arrow. Fig. 3 is Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

Application filed March 1, 1915. Serial No. 11,212.

a front'elevational view of the work bench of my invention including the additional cabinet or compartment. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken on the plane of the line 4, 4, of Fig 3 and looking in the direction indicated by the arrow, and Fig. 5 is an end elevational view.

Referring first to Fig. 1, it will be seen that the structure there illustrated is made up fundamentally of three units-the large drawer section 6, the small drawer section 7 and the central section 8. 'Referring first to the large drawer section 6, it will be seen that the unit comprises the uprights 9, 9, and the cross pieces 10, 10, and that it is made up generally in skeleton form. It will be seen that drawers 11, 11, are provided and the cabinet, closed by the door 12, is also provided. The small drawer section 7 is built generally in the same way except that it is provided with a larger number of small drawers, 13, 13, a slide 14, and a hinged receiver 15. The central unit is provided with the side panels 16, 16, and with the cross pieces, 17, 17, from which various drawers, 18, 18, are supported. The three units thus constructed are of the same height, as illustrated, and the central unit provides for the accommodation of ones person while sitting at the'bench. Outside panels, 19, 19, are provided at the ends and a backboard 20 of over-all length is also provided. A working top 21 rests upon the units and fits snugly between the endpanels, as illustrated.

The structure of the small drawer unit is illustrated in Fig. 2. The structure of the central unit is illustrated in Fig. 4.

Let it now be assumed that the work bench is to be disposed in a space, a foot or eighteen inches longer, for instance, than the over-all length of the arrangement shown in Fig. 1. Under such conditions the central unit is separated from one of the other units and a space is left between these two separated units, as illustrated between the small drawer unit and the central unit of Fig. 3. This space is used then for a cabinet and a door 22 which extends from the floor to the under side of the working top 21 is provided to fit snugly between the separated units, as illustrated, being hinged at 28, 23, to one of them. In such an instance, the working top and the back board 20 are made of corre- 14 sponding lengths. It will now be seen that the over-all space allowed is fully utilized,

7 are uniform and the size of the door 22 is determined by the amount of extra space which is to be filled in. The compartment 22, which is thus formed, is closed on top by the working top 21 and at the back by the wall against which the bench is disposed. The door may be provided with the snaplock, illustrated in dotted lines at 24, this snap-lock being of any ordinary constructiop and being not, therefore, shown in detai I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a work bench, a plurality of separate structurally independent drawer units, said units resting individually upon the floor, means for extending the total overall width of the units, said means comprising a door of a suitable width to take up the space between two adjacent units when so extended, said door being hinged to the front of one of said sections and of a height to extend substantially from the top to the bottom of said adjacent units, and means for holding together the units in extended position, said means comprising a working top of a length to cover said units and to cover the space between the units when so extended.

2. In a work bench, a plurality of separate structurally independent drawer and cabinet units, said unitsbeing of a common height and of definite width, said units resting upon the floor, the overall width of the units when so resting upon the floor being increased by separating adjacent units and leaving an open space therebetween, a door hinged to the front of one of the units adjacent said space,isa id door being of the common height of said units and of a Width to close off the front of said space, a working top for holding theunits so spaced, and for closing off the top of said space, and end panels outside the outermost'units, said end panels being secured-to said working top.

8. In a work bench, a plurality of independent drawer vand cabinet units each of said individual units resting upon the floor, two of said units being separated to leave a space therebetween, a door hinged to the front of one of'saiid separated units and of such size as to close said space by joining with the other separated unit, said door extending from top to bottom of said units, a working top extending over all the assembled units and closing off the top of said space between the separated units, end panels at the'end of the assembled structure and an over all back board connecting said end panels.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 25th day of February A. D.

HARRY J. BOSWORTH. Witnesses:

LESLIE W. FRIGKE, ERNEST W. RAPALEE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington. D. G. 

